Summary
Jonathan Liu is a senior engineering manager and three-time co-founder with 10+ years leading product-focused software teams and 15+ years in tech across startups and large platforms. He blends hands-on engineering (Golang, React, PySpark, Kafka) with AI-first product work—shipping Agentic AI, RAG and LLM solutions for fintech and advisor workflows at FinMateAI and enterprise tooling at Uber and Google. Comfortable scaling teams and systems, he has led full‑stack and mobile squads, built doughnut‑hole products like docusign-lite (Hense) from YC, and won an internal Uber hackathon for conversational helpdesk tooling. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs an MS in Engineering Management with founder grit and a practical bias toward automating repetitive workflows to save hours for knowledge workers.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
University of California, San Diego
Master of Science - MS, Engineering Management, Master of Science - MS, Engineering Management at Columbia University